PHILADELPHIA -- Much of the talk this weekend was about the health of Connecticut head coach Jim Calhoun. But less then 3 minutes into Texas A&M's game against the Calhoun-coached Huskies, it was the Aggies who weren't feeling well.

UConn scored the game's first 10 points in rolling to a 92-66 victory, putting a rude end to the Aggies' school-record fourth straight NCAA Tournament. The Huskies shot 57.9 percent from the field (33 of 57) and had a 39-28 rebounding edge before 19,894 fans at the Wachovia Center.

"Too big, too fast, too good," A&M head coach Mark Turgeon said. "They played great. We were a little intimidated early. We didn't do what we were supposed to do early and got behind. I thought they were great and we weren't as good as we're capable of being."

The 26-point loss was the most lopsided in 19 NCAA Tournament games for the Aggies.

A.J. Price scored 27 points, Jeff Adrien had 23 and Connecticut dominated from the opening tip to put the Huskies in the Sweet 16 for the 12th time under their Hall of Fame coach.

"Are we special yet?" Calhoun said. "A couple of wins from now, we're going to have an idea."

After getting treatment for dehydration and missing Connecticut's first-round game, Calhoun came back and never had to worry as the Huskies had their second straight NCAA blowout.

Stanley Robinson had 12 points for the top-seeded Huskies (29-4), who will play Purdue next week in the West Region semifinals in Glendale, Ariz.

How's this for a possible omen of what's ahead for UConn? The 1999 and 2004 national championships both went through the Phoenix area and Calhoun missed a game in each tournament because of illness.

"We think that we're going to be there every year and we aspire to do that," Calhoun said.

Bryan Davis and Donald Sloan led Texas A&M with 12 points. The ninth-seeded Aggies (24-10) were knocked out by the top seed in the second round for the second straight tournament.

Calhoun appeared a bit more subdued as he sat on the bench. He barked at the refs a couple of times, but otherwise stuffed his hands in his pockets and strolled the bench area like he was talking a walk in the park.

"I think I was my usual self," Calhoun said. "I yelled a couple things out. My wife will tell me about them later."

The Huskies rediscovered their swagger and attitude that vaulted them to the top of the Big East standings and the Associated Press poll earlier this season, making this win an easy one.

UConn broke away at the start with a collection of mid-range jumpers and 3-pointers. They didn't need much from Hasheem Thabeet to crush the Aggies. Thabeet, the 7-foot-3 center and co-player of the year in the Big East, never even touched the ball on offense until midway through the first half. He took just two shots in the game and finished with six points.

"I normally wouldn't think we could do what we did without Hasheem being a dominant force," Calhoun said.

The Aggies had won seven of eight, but surrendered their highest point total of the season and absorbed their worst loss.

"I'm not sure we played a team that good since I've been at A&M," said Turgeon, who completed his second year. "I definitely think they have a chance to be a national champion."

Adrien showed why early.

Adrien scored the first bucket of the game, then blocked A&M's first attempt. He grabbed a missed jumper and swung his two elbows, startling a couple of Aggies. Three possessions later, Price worked the ball in the lane to Adrien for a thunderous and uncontested dunk.

"I was very surprised after I hit the first couple jump shots, they was leaving me that open," Adrien said. "I just kept shooting and I was feeling good.

The Aggies called their first timeout only a minute into the game, and Turgeon played Calhoun's role as the cranky coach. He badgered the officials and was finally whistled for a technical on a foul call with 9:58 left in the first half. Price made two free throws for the technical and Thabeet swished his two and it was 22-8.

"I thought we were going to get better at that point [after the timeout], but we didn't," Turgeon said. "[It] came down to we just could not guard them. We couldn't guard them. We could never put anything together because we could never get a stop."

UConn got great looks and Price didn't even attempt the Huskies' first 3 until almost 9 minutes were left in the half. He made it, of course.

The Aggies made their first 10 shots in their first-round win against BYU, but missed their first five in this one. When Derrick Roland finally hit a jumper, it was already 10-2.

"They did a great job," said senior forward Josh Carter, who was 3 of 13 from the field, including 1 of 6 on 3-pointers. "But we also had a lot of open looks we didn't knock down. Shots we usually make at a high rate, we just didn't get it done today."

Carter, Roland, Sloan and B.J. Holmes combined to shoot 10 for 38. A&M was 3 of 13 on 3-pointers.

Texas A&M's 10th basket came with 2:03 left in the half and UConn's rout was already full steam ahead.

"Guys came out with a few butterflies," Sloan said. "Big game, big stage. We shot fast, didn't execute."

The Huskies' 24-1 start matched the 1995-96 team for best start in school history and they appeared primed for a possible No. 1 overall seed. But they lost one of their most effective outside shooters when Jerome Dyson went down with a knee injury, and the Huskies closed the season only 3-3 in their final six games -- including the classic six-overtime loss to Syracuse.

The finish didn't rob them of a No. 1 seed, but it did seem to make them more vulnerable than invincible.

Scratch that.

"This should be a message sent showing that we are a good team," Price said. "We've had a great year, thus far. Anyone who questioned we were a No. 1 seed, I think we answered those questions by playing hard and showing people we could beat good teams."

Price helped the Huskies pull away in a sizzling stretch to close the first 20 minutes. He hit a pull-up 3 pointer, scored a layup off a turnover, then nailed another 3 that made it 46-22.

OK, he wasn't perfect. He traveled on the next possession.

The second half was academic, simply a time for UConn to pad its stats and put the finishing touches on the rout. The Huskies roughed up Chattanooga 103-47 in the first round, the third-largest margin of victory in NCAA Tournament history.

"I'm really surprised we never made a run," Turgeon said. "That's a credit to how good they are. We just couldn't get a stop."

The Aggies had no answer for Adrien and Price, who shot a combined 19 for 32 from the floor. Adrien didn't come out until 2 minutes were left and Price followed at the 1:30 mark with the Huskies up 26.

"We both played very big today in a big-time game," Price said.